Word: deepest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nobody thought of Thiokol as a retread material until Kettering and the Society of Automotive Engineers last April set out to explore every possible form of rubber synthetic and substitute. They pried into the deepest competitive secrets of U.S. rubber processors without finding a quick, cheap answer to the tire problem. Then they called in the U.S. chemical manufacturers, again examined every possibility. Only one appeared good: Thiokol. To test its usefulness, they crowded a year's research into the last two months...
Tarzan Triumphs—"a story of the ape-man's defense of the British Empire against the Nazis in Deepest Africa." To reporters in Portland, Ore., Lana Turner confided: "Hollywood is not as bad as some writers picture it. We have the most dignified and refined and gentle manly people that you could find in the world...
...never before, the Allied peoples needed the antidote of aggressive action, or at least the promise of action. In this week of deepest need, the promise seemed to come from London. At No. 10 Downing St., at the War Office, at the U.S. Embassy abruptly appeared Harry Hopkins, the man who more than any other acts and speaks for President Roosevelt, and General George Catlett Marshall, the U.S. Army's Chief of Staff. In the U.S. and Britain, anxious millions forthwith believed what they wanted to be told: that their forces were about to take the offensive and open...
...this summer, men will be able to study the classics without a knowledge of Latin and Greek. In what may prove to be one of the deepest results of the war on Harvard education, the Classics Department will begin to offer courses on such topics as "Athenean Democracy in the Periclean Age" with reading entirely in English. By this type of antiquity more available to the student not interested in devoting his College career to the classics...
From the Canadian-Australasian liner Niagara, 438 ft. below New Zealand's coastal waters, an Australian salvage company hauled ?2,397,000 ($7,750,000) in gold ingots. The job had taken eleven months and three weeks, was the deepest salvage operation in marine history...